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• RAF Hawk jet plunges to ground in fireball after horror oversight

  19-10-2026 23:39 via Daily Express :: UK Feed
  The two pilots managed to safely eject before the jet crashed into a fireball near caravans and homes.
  
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• Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules - BBC

  19-10-2026 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules  BBCAndy Burnham outlines new rules to outlaw ‘rip-off’ private parking fines  The GuardianPM puts the brakes on rip-off parking charges and car scams  GOV.UKPrivate parking firms told to cap fines for motorists  The TimesParking fines capped at £100 in purge on ‘cowboys’  The Telegraph
  
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• Andy Burnham outlines new rules to outlaw ‘rip-off’ private parking fines

  19-10-2026 23:30 via The Guardian
  Drivers to get five minutes to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after their session endsDrivers will get a guaranteed five minutes to decide whether to park and 10 minutes to leave after their parking session ends before they face a fine under new rules for private car parks that Andy Burnham said were designed to outlaw “rip-off” charges.In the latest in a series of “everyday fixes” to ease the cost of living and give consumers a “fairer” deal,
  
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• Helen Haines was chatting with locals at a dog park on Monday morning. By the afternoon, she was fighting for her life

  19-10-2026 23:14 via The Guardian
  
  Australia’s politicians have been facing increasing threats and abuse. It can no longer be dismissed as social media noise or harmless commentFollow our live blog for latest updatesPoliticians condemn alleged attack after independent MP Helen Haines critically injuredWho is Helen Haines, the MP allegedly attacked in Victoria?Victorian independent MP Helen Haines was at the opening of a dog park in Mansfield on Monday, out and about in the sprawling northern Victorian electorate, talking to
  
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• Davies ensures Spurs off the bottom after first win of season against Coventry

  19-10-2026 23:05 via The Guardian
  Tottenham are level with Beyoncé at last. Progress is represented in Roberto De Zerbi’s side earning only their sixth home win in the Premier League since November 2024. Cynics will point out that this spectacular stadium has hosted as many Beyoncé gigs during that time, but Spurs are finally singing a happier tune after dragging themselves out of the bottom three thanks to a messy but gritty 3-1 win over Coventry.It was not especially convincing. Coventry raged at the second
  
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• Aberfan: The Village That Fought Back review – the contempt they have faced to get justice is sickening

  19-10-2026 23:00 via The Guardian
  As we witness the endless indignities these grieving families have endured in the six decades since the mining disaster, it is impossible not to turn red with rage‘I’d like to have known her that bit longer, really. Those eight years went very, very quickly. I loved the child. I lost her. And that seemed to me to be the end of everything really, when she’d gone.”Ray Lee, now 90, lost his daughter Anne on 21 October 1966. It was the day her primary school, along with sever
  
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• Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon - BBC

  19-10-2026 22:55 via news.google.com
  
  Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon  BBCJapan’s mission to Mars’s moons takes off  The Economist‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos  The GuardianVeteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission  The RegisterIdefix Rover With CFRP Sandwich Chassis Heads for Martian Moon  CompositesWorld
  
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• Man held after three Jewish women report assaults

  19-10-2026 22:51 via BBC News
  
  Three women, one pushing a baby in a pram, reported being assaulted in Clapton Common, Hackney.
  
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• Reform UK mayor investigated over naked photo claims

  19-10-2026 22:41 via BBC News
  
  Reform UK's Luke Campbell denies claims that he showed nude photos of himself to a female colleague.
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo receives 30-day suspension and £215 fine over Portugal walkout

  19-10-2026 22:34 via The Guardian
  Disciplinary council upholds charge against 41-year-oldFifa suspends Egypt’s Hossam Hassan and Mostafa ZikoCristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for 30 days by the Portuguese ⁠FA after leaving the national team camp following a rift with the coach, ⁠Jorge Jesus, over ⁠his role in the side. The federation’s disciplinary council said it had upheld the charge against ⁠the 41-year-old forward in full and imposed a fine of €255 (£215).Ronaldo left Portuga
  
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• Best and worst boroughs in London to grow up - how does your area fare? - London Evening Standard

  19-10-2026 22:20 via news.google.com
  
  Best and worst boroughs in London to grow up - how does your area fare?  London Evening Standard'Postcode lottery' driving children's inequality in England, commissioner warns  BBCYouth services in parts of England in state of emergency, children’s commissioner says  The GuardianMedway named as one of hardest places for children to grow up in England  ITVXRevealed: The hardest places in England to grow up  The Telegraph
  
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• Over three dozen Congress members’ offices targeted with white powder envelopes

  19-10-2026 21:44 via The Guardian
  Envelopes containing powder come weeks before midterms as federal agents try to identify who is behind campaignMore than three dozen members of US Congress have had their offices targeted with envelopes containing white powder, less than three weeks before the 3 November midterms, as federal agents try to identify who is behind the campaign.The latest is the Virginia Democrat Suhas Subramanyam, whose Leesburg district office was evacuated on Monday after an envelope containing a suspicious subst
  
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• Melting Ron DeSantis statue unveiled to call out his inaction on climate crisis

  19-10-2026 21:22 via The Guardian
  Florida governor has consistently opposed any legislation to curb planet-heating emissions, calling it a ‘radical climate agenda’A life-sized statue of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, was unveiled and promptly began melting in front of an audience in Tallahassee in a symbolic protest at his rejection of action on the climate crisis.The silvery statue, revealed to an audience of onlookers last week, melted away to show a skull under DeSantis’s face. The structure was cast fr
  
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• ‘Crucial opportunity to act’ as study finds most of Europe’s wild bee species in decline

  19-10-2026 21:00 via The Guardian
  As Cop17 kicks off, records since 1921 show more bee species declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alps Most of Europe’s wild bee species and about half of its hover fly species have declined over the last century, a study has found, as a UN biodiversity summit begins in Armenia.Records since 1921 show more bee species are declining than increasing in all parts of Europe except the Alpine region. The richness of bee and hover fly species suffered a persistent drop in
  
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• Uefa demands Fifa releases documents relating to World Cup sell-off scheme

  19-10-2026 20:52 via The Guardian
  European governing body gives two-week deadlineLetter addresses other issues including Balogun affairUefa has given Fifa a two-week deadline to release key documents relating to Gianni Infantino’s World Cup sell-off plan and other governance issues in its latest critique of football’s world governing body.A letter sent to Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, by his counterpart at Uefa, Theodore Theodoridis, is accompanied by an eight-page document that has more tha
  
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• Eagles QB Hurts reportedly played after not sleeping for 36 hours amid blood clot diagnosis

  19-10-2026 20:40 via The Guardian
  28-year-old set to miss season after diagnosisTanner McKee has taken over as Eagles starterPhiladelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is set to miss the rest of the season after further testing ⁠revealed blood clots had traveled from his leg to his lungs, the team announced on Monday.Hurts’s condition is considered stable and ⁠he “has no significant ⁠functional limitations,” ​the team said. His treatment for a new diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and b
  
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• Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water

  19-10-2026 20:37 via The Guardian
  Exclusive: Utility seen as ‘litmus test’ of PM’s promise to bring ‘essentials of life’ under public controlAndy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company.In an early test of his promise to bring “the essentials of life” under public control, the prime minister is urging his advisers to go back to the drawing board and create a new list of
  
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• Woman says she 'closed eyes and tried not to be there' during alleged Russell Brand rape

  19-10-2026 20:22 via BBC News
  
  The 51-year-old faces three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
  
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• France imposes partial curfews in several cities, including parts of Paris

  19-10-2026 20:16 via The Guardian
  Interior minister concedes police ‘lost control’ of weekend protests as PM vows to restore public orderPartial curfews have been issued for a number of French cities, including parts of Paris, after the government admitted police had “lost control” during violent weekend protests around the country.Sébastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, said after an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday he was “fully resolved to restore public order” and had calle
  
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• Ofcom to investigate Channel 5’s ‘unfair’ portrayal of Huw Edwards - The Times

  19-10-2026 20:15 via news.google.com
  Ofcom to investigate Channel 5’s ‘unfair’ portrayal of Huw Edwards  The TimesOfcom investigates Huw Edwards complaint over Channel 5 drama  The GuardianChannel 5 Drama About Huw Edwards Scandal Sparks Ofcom Investigation  HuffPost UKHuw Edwards Drama For Skydance UK Network 5 Being Probed By Ofcom  DeadlineThe Huw Edwards 5 drama 'Power' is being investigated by Ofcom for fairness and privacy. Read more below.  Facebook
  
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• FA Cup first round draw: 2021 winners Leicester City to visit Oxford City - BBC

  19-10-2026 20:13 via news.google.com
  
  FA Cup first round draw: 2021 winners Leicester City to visit Oxford City  BBCLeicester to visit Oxford City in FA Cup first round  BBCEmirates FA Cup first round draw numbers confirmed  TheFA.comFA Cup draw: Leicester to face Oxford City, Wigan vs. Boreham Wood  ESPNBARNET TO FACE TRANMERE ROVERS IN FA CUP ROUND ONE  Barnet FC
  
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• Troubles legacy bill is not an amnesty for soldiers - NI secretary

  19-10-2026 20:05 via BBC News
  
  Amendments to the bill are being debated by MPs, as the long-awaited legislation returns to the House of Commons.
  
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• Israeli police detain 10 people in rare raid against West Bank settlers

  19-10-2026 20:05 via The Guardian
  Move comes after US photojournalist and group of European diplomats and Palestinians were assaulted in separate attacksIsraeli police have detained 10 people in a rare raid against settlers, after a weekend of extreme violence in the occupied West Bank including an attack on US photojournalist Heidi Levine, which she described as an “attempted lynching”.She was knocked down, kicked and beaten by a group of masked Israeli men as she covered the olive harvest in a Palestinian village o
  
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• Trump claims Zelensky ‘never wanted to end war’ as rift deepens with Kyiv - The Independent

  19-10-2026 19:49 via news.google.com
  
  Trump claims Zelensky ‘never wanted to end war’ as rift deepens with Kyiv  The IndependentTrump says suspension of Russia sanctions is to keep peace negotiations going  BBCTrump: Zelensky never wanted to end Ukraine war  The TelegraphUkraine war briefing: Trump accuses Zelenskyy of not wanting to end war as feud rumbles on  The GuardianTrump’s Push for Deals With Russia Powers His Frustration With Ukraine  The New York Times
  
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• Minister says Mahmood’s migration policy will ‘prolong integration’ - The Guardian

  19-10-2026 19:48 via news.google.com
  
  Minister says Mahmood’s migration policy will ‘prolong integration’  The GuardianEnergy Secretary attacks Mahmood’s migrant crackdown  The TelegraphCabinet minister is latest to attack Shabana Mahmood’s migration reforms  The TimesBritain’s settlement rules face a reckoning as ministers delay immigration crackdown  London Business NewsFury as 39,621 more migrants told they can stay in UK than last year  AOL.co.
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend - The Guardian

  19-10-2026 19:44 via news.google.com
  Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend  The GuardianYou Can See Everything seen by many on huge box office debut  BBCSecrets, lies and a shock A-list cameo: how You Can See Everything became the film of the year  The GuardianElizabeth Holmes’ Partner Worked At Failed Startup Luminar Before Starting His Own Blood-Testing Company  ForbesThe Story of Billy Evans and ‘Theranos 2.0’  
  
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• ITV’s exposé of racism and misogyny in Reform? Just a few (more) bad apples | John Crace

  19-10-2026 19:42 via The Guardian
  While the party’s MPs went into hiding, it was left to its failed byelection candidate Matt Goodwin to defend itIt was the dog that didn’t bark in the night. After Sunday night’s ITV exposé of widespread racism and misogyny within Reform, you might have expected one of its MPs to have taken to the airwaves on Monday morning to defend the party’s honour. To try to persuade viewers that the real problem lay with the journalists who couldn’t stop themselves from
  
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• North Sea strikes could severely disrupt UK fuel supplies, union warns

  19-10-2026 19:39 via The Guardian
  More than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers plan walkout amid rising tensions between unions and oil companies North Sea workers are preparing to strike at oil rigs across the ageing basin over the coming weeks in a sign of growing tensions between trade unions and oil companies.The Unite union said on ⁠Monday that more than ⁠160 ​offshore rig workers would take part ⁠in a 24-hour ​strike from Wednesday that could “severely disrupt” UK fuel supplies
  
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• The Guardian view on France’s protests: a polarised country is in a perilous political moment | Editorial

  19-10-2026 19:30 via The Guardian
  The scenes of social unrest and violence at the weekend are an ominous portent, ahead of elections which may deliver a far-right presidencyIn Emmanuel Macron’s book Revolution, published ahead of the 2017 presidential election that he went on to win, he promised to restore hope to a country that was losing faith in its future. As Mr Macron’s lame-duck second term enters its last phase against a quasi-insurrectionary backdrop of torched public buildings and looted shops, the fail
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and Putin: Ukraine’s future is not theirs to bargain away | Editorial

  19-10-2026 19:25 via The Guardian
  Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strongDoes Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play Donald Trump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow’s thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If Mr Trump agrees to negotiate Ukraine’s future with Mr Puti
  
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• Trial hears Robinson 'intimidated' Daily Mail reporters

  19-10-2026 19:24 via BBC News
  
  The activist is accused of "bully-boy tactics" and denies harassment causing fear of violence.
  
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• ‘Money and medals over safety’: Nassar judge warns gymnasts are still being failed

  19-10-2026 19:22 via The Guardian
  Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse crimes came to light 10 years agoSurvivors gather at world championships to call for reformThe judge who sentenced the former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar to up to 175 years in jail in 2018 for the sexual abuse of more than 250 women and girls has condemned the lack of meaningful change in the decade since Nassar’s crimes were exposed.With the World Gymnastics Championships taking place here this week, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said human rights
  
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• Christiane Amanpour announces she’s leaving CNN after 43 years

  19-10-2026 19:21 via The Guardian
  Anchor’s departure not thought to be linked to company’s recent acquisition by David Ellison’s Skydance MediaChristiane Amanpour, one of CNN’s most decorated and venerated journalists, is leaving the network after 43 years, she said in a statement on Monday.Amanpour, who began working for the then-fledging network as an assistant on the international assignment desk in 1983 and is now its chief international anchor, will end her show Amanpour in May and leave the network
  
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• Funding social care is a collective responsibility | Letters

  19-10-2026 19:18 via The Guardian
  Roger Steer says the solution is to adopt the NHS model, Janet Dubé suggests an audit, while Sally Byers says language that respects people living with dementia is crucialPolly Toynbee asks a seemingly difficult question and discusses a knotty issue (In Liverpool I saw the tough choices Louise Casey faces on social care – starting with who will pay?, 13 October). Her question is framed as an issue of individual choice inviting the response: “Not me if I can avoid it.&rdqu
  
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• We need to stop disinformation in UK political adverts. Here’s a chance to do so | Letter

  19-10-2026 19:17 via The Guardian
  Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendumAndy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit (Report, 11 October) and the warning by the MI5 chief, Ken McCallum, against exaggerating its impact (Report, 13 October) risk overlooking another serious threat to electoral integrity: disinformation from our own political parties and campaigners.Foreign interference deserves scrutiny,
  
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• The cinema, punk music and swimming helped me through grief | Letters

  19-10-2026 19:17 via The Guardian
  Rachel Walsh responds to an article by Georgina Elliott in which she describes the comfort she felt sitting alone in the cinema after losing her brotherI could relate to Georgina Elliott’s finding comfort and relief in the dark at the cinema (The one change that worked: numb with grief, I sat in the dark, surrounded by strangers – and began to heal, 12 October). After my mum died, I felt like a balloon floating further and further from my life, incorporeal and ghostly.The cinema
  
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• Birmingham was a BBC radio powerhouse. Now even The Archers is leaving | Letter

  19-10-2026 19:17 via The Guardian
  Former BBC employee Owen Bentley laments the final nail in the coffin for what once was a hub of quality programmingI can understand why the BBC is reluctant to build a new drama studio for The Archers when it moves to Digbeth, seeing that there is no other radio drama being made in Birmingham that would plump out its use (BBC to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for first time in its 75-year history, 12 October).Is this to be the final nail in the coffin of programme-making for the natio
  
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• Houthi attack kills 53 in biggest single loss of life since Yemen civil war reignited

  19-10-2026 19:15 via The Guardian
  More than 200 mostly young people said to be injured after ballistic missile attack on training camp for government forces At least 53 people have been killed in a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a training camp for Yemeni government security forces, making it the largest single loss of life since the country’s civil war reignited in September.The attack on al-Alam camp in the southern Shabwa province was said to have injured more than 200 others, mostly young recruits, and was describe
  
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• Cyclist was 'physiologically alive' while trapped under car, court hears - Warrington Guardian

  19-10-2026 18:56 via news.google.com
  
  Cyclist was 'physiologically alive' while trapped under car, court hears  Warrington GuardianWatch court footage as murder accused drives 'erratically' before fatal crash  Warrington GuardianEverything heard in murder trial of Stretford Grammar headteacher  Manchester Evening NewsWitnesses tried to save head teacher dragged to death under car  BBCSo adorable! ❤️  Facebook
  
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• Ben Jennings on the violent protests in France – cartoon

  19-10-2026 18:48 via The Guardian
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• Cheltenham jumps into action after fixing its troublesome hole

  19-10-2026 18:41 via The Guardian
  Home of National Hunt racing has undergone extensive work on its drainage system in preparation for new seasonThere is little chance to catch your breath as the racing seasons turn and six days on from Ascot’s exhilarating Champions Day Cheltenham will open its gates on Friday for the first card of the 2026-27 campaign.Racing will return to the spiritual home of National Hunt after an abrupt curtailment to Cheltenham’s latest season. That was to allow for extensive work on the track&
  
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• Journalists forced to flee homes after Tommy Robinson shared images of where they lived online, court told

  19-10-2026 18:36 via The Guardian
  Far-right activist is charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence to two MailOnline reportersJournalists and their family members had to flee their homes after “bullyboy, intimidatory tactics” were deployed by the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, a court has been told as his harassment trial got under way.Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was alleged to have targeted journalists from the Daily Mail and Mail Online by circulating ima
  
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• Ofcom investigates Huw Edwards complaint over Channel 5 drama

  19-10-2026 18:31 via The Guardian
  Former BBC presenter says programme starring Martin Clunes gave a misleading and unfair account of his downfallBritain’s media regulator is investigating a complaint from the former BBC news presenter Huw Edwards about a Channel 5 drama depicting his downfall.Ofcom said it was investigating Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, which starred Martin Clunes and was broadcast earlier this year, under its “fairness and privacy” rules. Continue reading...
  
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• Schools 'explosive device' email a hoax, say police

  19-10-2026 18:28 via BBC News
  
  Assistant Chief Constable Ryan Henderson said police consider the risk to the public "as low".
  
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• Masts removed from bomb-laden WWII ship in Thames in bid to avoid explosion

  19-10-2026 18:21 via The Guardian
  American warship sank in 1944 with approximately 1,400 tonnes of munitions onboardA sunken US wartime ship in the Thames estuary holding enough unexploded bombs to devastate a Kent coastal town and send a tidal wave through London has been made slightly safer, ministers have announced.Engineers have removed the masts of the SS Richard Montgomery – a second world war cargo ship that sank in 1944 with approximately 1,400 tonnes of munitions onboard – without triggering the kind of fear
  
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• Secrets, lies and a shock A-list cameo: how You Can See Everything became the film of the year

  19-10-2026 18:17 via The Guardian
  Nathan Fielder’s secretive Elizabeth Holmes documentary has become a sold-out smash hit and might make Oscars historySpoilers aheadIf there is one moment that sums up You Can See Everything, the new A24 documentary on Elizabeth Holmes that until this weekend was shrouded in spoiler-averse secrecy, it is, perhaps surprisingly, the one everyone already knows: co-director Nathan Fielder, the droll comedian known for deadpanning subjects into submission, sitting eye to eye with Holmes, the unb
  
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• Farage claim that £5m was reward for Brexit was ‘not press office line’, close aide says

  19-10-2026 18:16 via The Guardian
  Exclusive: Undercover footage of Dan Jukes raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for securityNigel Farage undermined his own claims that a £5m gift was for security when he referred to the money as a reward for Brexit, according to one of his closest aides.The apparent admission came in undercover footage seen by the Guardian in which Dan Jukes says that it is “priced in” for Farage to profit from politics. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Concerning issues’ found at GB power grid by inquiry into cover-up claims

  19-10-2026 18:14 via The Guardian
  Neso control room staff accused senior executives of covering up extent of blackout risks during June heatwaveIndependent investigators have found significant and concerning “cultural issues” at Great Britain’s grid operator after control room staff accused senior executives of covering up the extent of blackout risks in the UK during the June heatwave.An external legal firm tasked with investigating a series of whistleblower allegations against the National Energy System Opera
  
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• Kenyan starvation cult leader guilty of murder of 190 children and one adult

  19-10-2026 18:08 via The Guardian
  
  Paul Mackenzie and his church set up sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children, say prosecutorsA Kenyan court has found the starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie and about 30 others guilty of murder over the deaths of ⁠190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult-related disasters in recent history.Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after police received a tipoff, and weeks later authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves in the Shakaho
  
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• Four arrested after police officer injured in shooting

  19-10-2026 17:50 via BBC News
  
  The officer was shot in the foot and remains in hospital in a stable condition, police say.
  
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